Barefoot in the Snow
How can I go creeping
Barefoot in the snow?
How can I love so deeply,
Someone I do not know?
There is beauty that I find
In your smile, in your eyes
In the tears while you cry
In the trails they leave behind
Why do I find beauty
In pain, in grief
In brutality
No kiss of relief?
But how you are here
How you feel each wretched thing
There is beauty in the way
You can begin again
We can accept the truth
Though painful, dark it is
I’ll give my hand to you
Since mine is yours to give
So I can go creeping
Barefoot in the snow
Because although my toes are freezing
Through the pain I know
That somewhere waiting
Through that blinding white
Is a soft, dark place
And a hope of warmer times.